Meryl Streep loved that this Oscar Oscar Oscar performance has shown all its “errors”

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In 1991, Amblin Entertainment was already buying the cinematographic rights of Robert Jamer’s romantic novel “The Bridges of Madison County”, which was not even published in 1992. Some leaders knew that it would be a milk cow, and the adaptation of the film entered the pre-production almost immediately after Amblin educated it. It had to be a prestigious project for a notable director. Amblin just had to find the right one. However, the project shortly later entered the development of Hell (as Weekly entertainment revealed in 1995), passing through the hands of several directors and writers, who finally abandoned.

The story tells that Clint Eastwood was invited to direct “bridges”, almost on a whim, by the president of Warner Bros., Terry Semel. Eastwood had an open schedule and simply replied: “Give me 24 hours.” He then jumped on an airplane and went to Iowa (where the film takes place) to take pictures of bridges, screening the light location and having a good idea of ​​the film. The next day, Eastwood returned, saying he would. He even had a budget and a shooting calendar already in mind … And his budget was 1.5 million dollars less than Warner had not envisaged it. Naturally, WB was relieved and told Eastwood to go there.

Eastwood, it must be remembered, is a filmmaker without frills. He does not like to direct his actors up close, expecting that they did all their homework in advance. He also tends to install the camera by instinct, to make one or two catches and then move on. Several renowned actors have expressed astonishment of how Eastwood is as director. His freelyless approach to cinema has even attracted Meryl Streep to the end.

Streep plays in “Bridges” like Francesca, a lonely Italian housewife who – in 1965, Iowa – has a brief and passionate of graying photographer (Eastwood) while her husband is out of the city. In the biography of Shawn Levy “Clint”, like covered by Times, Streep said that Eastwood unexpected all of its “mistakes”. But, she suggested, it was for the benefit of the film.

It should be remembered that “the bridges of the county of Madison” was an important blockbuster, fell directly in the middle of the summer of 1995. It was the summer of “Braveheart”, “Apollo 13”, “Clueless”, “Casper”, “Batman Forever” and “Pocahontas”. And in the middle, “Bridges” won more than $ 175 million at the box office against a budget of $ 22 million. In addition, it was a prestigious photo, hanging on Streep an appointment of the best actress to the Oscars. It is not widely celebrated like some of the other films mentioned, but it was one of the unexpected successes of the year.

Eastwood, as indicated in the Times article, took a large part of his style as director of Don Siegel, director of “Dirty Harry” and several other starred films by Eastwood. It seems that Siegel is not very interested in waste, and Eastwood appreciated this. Eastwood had been in the business for two decades before leading his first feature film, and he adopted Siegel’s approach: launch your actors, find the locations, put the camera, pull, then move on. However, this type of method does not allow actors to find their character by trials and errors and does not give them several sockets to unlock a scene. Sometimes his style of shooting was a bit random for the actors, but he was always on time and in the budget.

Example: Streep was a little surprised when she finally watched the “Bridges” final cup. She expected Eastwood to use certain catches, and it seems that the director used different sockets each time. “Do you know what I like?” Said Streep. “You have used all my mistakes.”

The resulting film is natural, almost windy. He has the painful quality required for romantic films for adults, but he also has a relaxed feeling of silent jokes. Like many Eastwood films, it’s dramatically sweet. And even if Streep thought that Eastwood only used its worst taken, it was not enough to prevent the Academy from appointing its performance.